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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 316 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Disenchantment

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It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated wares Upon my silver shelf.

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